Towards 100% Renewable Energy: Techniques, Costs and Regional Case-Studies

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Efficient Use of Energy in the Industry....Pages 3-16
Sustainable Energy Transition: Local Governments as Key Actors....Pages 17-25
Institutionalization of Solar Cities Development....Pages 27-31
State-of-the-Art and New Technologies of Direct Drive Wind Turbines....Pages 33-50
State of the Art in Polycrystalline Compound Thin-Film Photovoltaics....Pages 51-58
How Can We Include External Costs in the Price of Energy?....Pages 59-67
Evaluation of Renewable and Conventional Ammonia as a Potential Solution....Pages 69-86
Solar Trigeneration: Electricity, Cooling and Steam from the Sun....Pages 87-94
Curriculum Development into Renewable Energies Through Coupled Research and Applied Projects....Pages 95-101
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
Barriers and Opportunities for Transformation of Conventional Energy System of Turkey to 100 % Renewable Community Power....Pages 105-118
From Planning to Operation: Wind Power Forecasting Model for New Offshore Wind Farms....Pages 119-128
Technical Efficiency Improvement Scenario Analysis for Conversion Technologies in Turkey....Pages 129-135
Balancing of Fluctuating Power to Obtain 100 % Supply with Renewable Energy....Pages 137-145
Analysis of Demand-Side Management Option with Cogeneration Implementations in Turkish Energy System by MARKAL Model....Pages 147-155
Analyzing Cost-Effective Renewable Energy Contribution Options for Turkey....Pages 157-166
A Native Energy Decision Model for Turkey....Pages 167-177
Reference Energy System Development for Turkish Residential Sector....Pages 179-186
Energy Management Performance in Country Scale: A Data Envelopment Analysis....Pages 187-194
An Alternative Carbon Dioxide Emission Estimation for Turkey....Pages 195-201
Variability Analysis of Wind and Wind Power in Turkey....Pages 203-209
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
Models of Solar Deployment: Decentralised Versus Centralised Generation....Pages 211-217
Testing, Product Certification, and Inspection of Photovoltaic Modules for Local Production....Pages 219-226
Aerodynamic and Performance Analysis of Drag-Driven Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines....Pages 227-232
Front Matter....Pages 233-233
Optimal Control of Solar Heating System....Pages 235-242
Enhanced Geothermal Systems: The Soultz-sous-Forêts Project....Pages 243-248
Field Study for the Determination of the Ratio of Convective to Total Energy Transport in Geothermal Systems....Pages 249-254
A Simple Feedback Control Approach for Economic Measures to Deploy New Energy Technologies....Pages 255-261
Economic Impacts of Renewable Energy Increase in Germany....Pages 263-272
The Potentials and the Benefits of Intensified RES Cooperation Between the European Union and Its Neighbours....Pages 273-280
Update of World Geothermal Development (2013)....Pages 281-288
A New Evaluation Method Applying Sustainability and Climate Change Concepts: The Case of Planning New York City 2030....Pages 289-296
Reliability of 100 % Renewable Electricity Supply in the Australian National Electricity Market....Pages 297-303
Managing Waste for Energy Use in Turkey....Pages 305-312
Evaluation of Wind–Solar Hybrid System for a Household in Northern Cyprus....Pages 313-321
How do The External Costs of Renewable and Fossil Fuel Energy Compare?....Pages 323-338
Wind Energy Statistics in Europe: Onshore and Offshore....Pages 339-347
Issues in Accessing Enormous Renewable Resource in Ireland....Pages 349-360
Integration of Large Rooftop Photovoltaic Plants in Industrial or Commercial Areas....Pages 361-368
Front Matter....Pages 369-369
Archetypes of 100 % Renewable Energies Scenarios by 2050....Pages 371-377
The Energy Report: 100 % Renewable Energy by 2050....Pages 379-383
Front Matter....Pages 369-369
Offshore Wind Energy: Key to 100 % Renewable Energy....Pages 385-393
The Role of Biomass in a 100 % Renewable Energy World....Pages 395-400
History of Wind Energy and an Outlook for the Future....Pages 401-418
Electric Power System Transition and the “Polluter Pays Principle”....Pages 419-434
The Importance of Diversity for Renewables and Their Control in Future Electrical Infrastructure....Pages 435-440
Cellular Power Grids for a 100 % Renewable Energy Supply....Pages 441-447
Solar Atlas: One Quarter of 1 % of Turkey’s Surface Area Is Sufficient to Meet All the Power Demand with PV by 2050!....Pages 449-453